It’s been a long weekend of data recovery and data recovery failure. Thankfully I made a full system back up the night before our server crashed.
The hard drive was fried and no information could be taken off it.
However I did miss three of my personal websites but I was so tired I said I’ll get it in the morning and my server crashed before I could get there.
The crash was not expected what so ever. It’s safe to say all the most popular and active websites have been saved and will see restored over the next 24 – 48 hours.
Because I didn’t get any data from the hard drive I requested a refund from Godaddy seeing I paid 150 USD for then to add the old drive on a USB Enclosure.
I’m happy to announce Blog Engage is back up and hopefully for good!
Thanks for your patience and welcome back.
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Brian
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My name is Brian and I’m a Graduate of Business Administration Marketing. I work full time in Sales and Marketing. I’m a young and upcoming webmaster and note all my learning’s here on my blog. I am also the owner of blogengage a social network I created specifically for bloggers and blog serp a voting based blog directory.
Blog Engage is back up and running live…
It’s been a long weekend of data recovery and data recovery failure. Thankfully I made a full system back up the night before our server crashed….
Glad it finally up Brian.
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What happened actually? Since I didn’t come here in days I don’t know what happened..
What a long couple of days with serious withdrawal! Glad you’re back!
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Hey there Brian, great to have BE back, when do you expect BloggingWire to be back as well?
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Hi Brian, congrats on making the back up. It’s great to see BE back again. I have a question what does it mean when you say “add the old drive on a USB Enclosure”. Did GoDaddy fail to provide a service that you paid for? I’d like to hear more about this when you get time.
And like Karen, I’m wondering when Blogging Wire will be back too.
Thanks Brian, I know you are feeling much better now.
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It’s been a long wait! I don’t envy you for having to go through that (been there, done that…yuck). So good to see BE back online again! Is your twitter account ok though? I tweeted you yesterday to see what was happening.
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Brian,
I’ve been following your sites (bloggingwire and seomkt as well). That was a sad downtime.
I can understand the pain of recovering all the data. Yeah it s*cks but well, you did brought it back to us. Good job and welcome back.
Anyway are bloggingwire and seomkt back as well?
Kevin Tan
Glad to see you got things sorted Brian, you must have been pulling your hair out in the process.
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OUCH. My condolences for the loss of your data, the downtime, and the loss of your valuable time in restoring it all. That’s never fun.
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Hi Brian,
I suggesting you to change the server. Please find some good VPS hosting providers or Managed dedicated server providers. Don’t waste your time on GoDaddy. Every time when I trying to load Blogengage, its dead slow…
My suggestions is to choose the best managed hosting providers like HostGator and Knownhost.
That must have been nightmare. Glad you’ve managed to sort out the problem and you’re back online.
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Glad to hear it! I love checking out the latest articles hitting BlogEngage, down time can be such a pain
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glad to see that it’s back up and running.
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I don’t know why I can’t change my avatar now. An error appears: “There was an error moving the uploaded file”.
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Hi Tek3D, I went and added the correct permissions to the uploads folder. Please let me know if that fixes the issue. I just uploaded my picture and it worked fine.
Thanks for letting me know!
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It’s weird. Somehow my avatar changed but I still can’t upload another image.
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I actually uploaded that for you using my ftp server as a temp fix to your missing image. It’s a very odd process. You have to select upload your own image, select save, browse for your image upload it and select save again. Refresh your screen and it will be there.
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I did exactly the same procedure but it doesn’t work. I asked my friend and she had the same problem.
Could you plz change my avatar to this: http://imgur.com/yj088.jpg
Thanks!
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That is so odd Robert is a new member and he did it with no issues. http://www.blogengage.com/user.php?login=robert I will upload your image now! Sorry about the issues!
Thank sir!
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